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This article presented the treatment of the edentulous maxillary arch by using the Core-Vent implant system. The Core-Vent implant system can provide a suitable foundation for the support of a fixed or removable prosthesis. The results of the 17-year Branemark study as reported by Niznick indicates that "implants place…

Right chest leads, V3R-V7R were recorded in 109 persons (40 women, 69 men, mean age 41 years) without evidence of heart disease. An rS or rSr' configuration was found in V3R in 98% and in V4R in 91%. Secondary r waves increased in amplitude and frequency in lateral leads and were found in V7R in 65%. The r or r' waves…

In the last 25 years 268 (67%) patients were hospitalized for proper tuberculosis of the skin, and 132 (33%) for tuberculids. In the period 1983-1987 the prevalence of skin tuberculosis was 5.8 times lower than in the period 1963-1967. The frequency of the clinical forms of tuberculosis was as follows: tbc. luposa (57.…

We reviewed the cases of 16 patients with myelomeningocele and congenital kyphosis. Ten patients underwent kyphectomy with wire fixation and spinal fusion for severe-curve progression and problems with decubiti ulcers. The average curve magnitude at presentation for these 10 patients was 87 degrees (range 47-146 degree…

Sixteen patients (mean age 27 years, range 16 to 39 years) with the diagnosis of myopericarditis established by strict clinical criteria were evaluated following recovery 0.7 to 4.0 years (mean 2.7 years) later. Evidence of an acute viral infection was present in 44%. During the acute illness, the major clinical manife…

BACKGROUND: Due to their relationship with clinical progression, follow-up of exercise capacity and muscle strength is important for optimal disease management in patients who have undergone the Fontan procedure. We aimed to retrospectively analyze exercise capacity and muscle strength trajectory over approximately 2 y…

INTRODUCTION: Secondary amyloidosis (SA) results of tissue deposition of an acute phase reactant protein produced by chronic inflammation. Its incidence appears to be declining, following the improvement of medical care to primary diseases. Our aim is to assess a group of Portuguese patients with amyloidosis secondary…

Three groups of children with short stature secondary to growth hormone deficiency were treated for 4 years with recombinant growth hormone according to 3 regimen: 0.7 u/kg/week, 1.4 u/kg/week and 2.1 u/kg/week for 2 years, 0.7 u/kg/week the 2 following years. Catch up growth at 4 years was respectively 1.5 +/- 0.7 SD…

BACKGROUND: Pediatric membranous nephropathy (MN) is a rare glomerular disease with limited data available. This single-center study aims to describe risk stratification-based treatment and its outcomes. METHODS: This retrospective observational study included children younger than 18 years of age with primary MN…

INTRODUCTION: The optimal time for a neck ultrasound (US) in the follow-up of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) after the first year is undetermined. We aimed to verify the utility of routine neck US in the surveillance of patients diagnosed with low- and intermediate-risk PTC with no evidence of disease at the one-year a…

BACKGROUND: In the 1990s, azithromycin became the drug of choice for many infectious diseases but emerging resistance to the drug has only been reported in the last decade. In the last 5 years, the National Neisseria gonorrhoeae Reference Laboratory of Hungary (NNGRLH) has also observed an increased number of N. gonorr…

BACKGROUND: Retrospective evaluation of the frequency, efficacy, and tolerance of antiviral treatment for chronic viral hepatitis B and C (VHB, VHC) in children in Ostrava. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The sample included 17 children with chronic VHB, aged 3-15 years, treated with conventional interferon alpha in 1993-2008,…

BACKGROUND: Sex-specific trends over time with respect to kidney graft survival have scarcely been described in earlier studies. The present study aimed to examine whether kidney graft survival differs between women and men over time. METHODS: This study was based on prospectively collected data extracted from a quali…

UNLABELLED: Given the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer cases affecting the pediatric population in Europe, an epidemiological analysis of the available data is essential in order to update standards of care and recommend diagnostic and therapeutic strategies coherent to the new epidemiological trend. An observati…

OBJECTIVES: Follow-up of women with biopsy-confirmed CIN2+ who were either treated immediately with LLETZ or managed conservatively to determine the rates of patients back on routine screening programme after a median of three years in two groups. METHODS: In this retrospective study, 310 patients were involved who ha…

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to explore temporal trends in incidence and case fatality rates of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) over the last two decades in a Norwegian municipality. METHODS: Incident cases of primary ICH were registered in the period from 1995 through 2012 in 32,530 participants of the longit…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Infectious diseases (IDs) are major causes of morbidity and mortality and their surveillance is critical. In 2002, we implemented a simple and versatile homemade tool, named EPIMIC, for the real-time systematic automated surveillance of IDs at Marseille university hospitals, based on the data from…

BACKGROUND: In spite of some unquestionable positive tendencies observed over the last few years, occupational infectious diseases still pose a serious problem in Poland. During the last thirty years overall as many as 41,000 cases of occupational contagious and invasive diseases were identified. METHODS AND MATERIALS…

During the last 20 years, an increasing incidence of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) has been demonstrated by several studies. A ten-year retrospective analysis on 7,266 cases of primary BCC of the Department of Dermatology and Plastic Surgery of the University of Rome La Sapienza and the Department of Dermatology of the Un…

IntroductionChildren with choanal atresia (CA) typically present with nasal obstruction and require surgical intervention to establish a patent airway. Transnasal endoscopic surgery is the preferred treatment approach. However, long-term outcome data are lacking. This study aims to assess the long-term outcomes and qua…